Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...body lay in an open casket, her head turned to the left side and wrapped in a white headband. Her sisters, Thao and Tram, also wore the mourning bands. White is a traditional color of mourning in Vietnam...
...immigrated to the U.S. from Vietnam in 1985; Tadesse grew up and went to high school in Ethiopia...
...says retired Air Force Chief of Staff Merrill McPeak. "Neither our historical experience nor our common sense leads us to think we need to do this. We've had to fight three major regional contingencies in the past 45 years," the former four-star general says, referring to Korea, Vietnam and Iraq. "One comes along every 15 years or so -- two have never come along simultaneously...
...friends say the killing is particularlytragic because it ended the hopes of a young womanwho rose from being a refugee from Vietnam to awell-liked student at Harvard. They painted animage of a young woman determined to succeed inthe face of daunting odds, a perfectionist drivenby awareness of a tough past...
...boat refugee from Vietnam 10 years agowith her father and older sister, settling inDorchester, The Boston Globe reported today. Shewas reunited with her mother and younger sisteronly two years...